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COLUMBIA, South Carolina — On Friday night, Tom Steyer danced onstage to a live performance of “Back That Azz Up.”
Under blue and purple stage lights, the rapper Juvenile performed the song at Steyer’s last rally before Saturday’s South Carolina primary in a half-empty gym at Allen University, a historically black college here in Columbia.
The final event for Steyer was a hodgepodge of HBCU and southern Baptist culture: The campaign brought Juvenile and gospel singer Yolanda Adams to perform for a largely black audience. It was a small and energetic event that celebrated the culture, joy, and struggle of black southerners — a vignette of the campaign black South Carolinians say has wooed them away from campaigns like Joe Biden’s.